ISBN: 9781500891053

I think it was a Young Ireland Society that set my mind running on 'popular poetry.' We used to discuss everything that was known to us about Ireland, and especially Irish literature and … Mehr…

I think it was a Young Ireland Society that set my mind running on 'popular poetry.' We used to discuss everything that was known to us about Ireland, and especially Irish literature and Irish history. We had no Gaelic, but paid great honour to the Irish poets who wrote in English, and quoted them in our speeches. I could have told you at that time the dates of the birth and death, and quoted the chief poems, of men whose names you have not heard, and perhaps of some whose names I have forgotten. I knew in my heart that the most of them wrote badly, and yet such romance clung about them, such a desire for Irish poetry was in all our minds, that I kept on saying, not only to others but to myself, that most of them wrote well, or all but well. I had read Shelley and Spenser and had tried to mix their styles together in a pastoral play which I have not come to dislike much, and yet I do not think Shelley or Spenser ever moved me as did these poets. I thought one day-I can remember the very day when I thought it-'If somebody could make a style which would not be an English style and yet would be musical and full of colour, many others would catch fire from him, and we would have a really great school of ballad poetry in Ireland. If these poets, who have never ceased to fill the newspapers and the ballad-books with their verses, had a good tradition they would write beautifully and move everybody as they move me.' Then a little later on I thought, 'If they had something else to write about besides political opinions, if more of them would write about the beliefs of the people like Allingham, or about old legends like Ferguson, they would find it easier to get a style.' Then, with a deliberateness that still surprises me, for in my heart of hearts I have never been quite certain that one should be more than an artist, that even patriotism is more than an impure desire in an artist, I set to work to find a style and things to write about that the ballad writers might be the better. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Poetry>Poetry>Poetry, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781500891053

Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats is a collection of essays about art written during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His thoughts on symbolism versus allegory, art as… Mehr…

Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats is a collection of essays about art written during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His thoughts on symbolism versus allegory, art as the theater of commerce versus art as a great Passion and the essays on William Blake are marvelous. This book is a real treasure and one to add to the collection. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Poetry>Poetry>Poetry, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781500891053

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], Ideas of Good and Evil is a classic essay collection by William Butler Yeats including the following titles: What is 'Popular… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], Ideas of Good and Evil is a classic essay collection by William Butler Yeats including the following titles: What is 'Popular Poetry'?, Speaking to the Psaltery, Magic, The Happiest of the Poets, The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry, At Stratford-On-Avon, and many others., Plays, Playscripts<

ISBN: 9781500891053

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], Ideas of Good and Evil is a classic essay collection by William Butler Yeats including the following titles: What is 'Popular… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], Ideas of Good and Evil is a classic essay collection by William Butler Yeats including the following titles: What is 'Popular Poetry'?, Speaking to the Psaltery, Magic, The Happiest of the Poets, The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry, At Stratford-On-Avon, and many others., Plays, Playscripts<

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